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Welcome to Nerd Vibes.
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I'm your host, Armed Dark Mamba, aka Ray.
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On today's episode, we are going to be talking about the anime summer season finales.
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So that's going to be One Piece, Digimon B Break.
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We're going to talk about Black Torch, Country Pumpkin, Demons of the Shadow Realm.
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That's five right there.
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So I think we'll probably stick with those five.
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Maybe a little bit more we'll touch on.
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But we're going to talk about the summer anime finales.
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Then once we're done with that, we are going to get into our discussion about lanterns episode seven, the penultimate, which is the episode before the finale.
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So we got one more episode at lanterns.
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And then after we talk about lanterns, going forward on the podcast, we're going to be talking about Vision Quest.
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So gotta get ready for that.
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But on the other side of this break, we're going to be talking about anime summer season finales, some series finales.
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But we're going to be talking about anime summer season on the other side of this break.
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Alright, we are back.
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So I wanted to talk about the summer anime finales that we got over this past week or so.
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And some of them were amazing, top tier, absolutely fantastic.
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And then some of them were underwhelming, to say the least.
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But I think we're I think we said five that we're gonna talk about.
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And uh the first one I want to start with is gonna be Old Country Bunkin' Turnmaster Swordsman.
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So we are in, I want to say season two for that one.
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Total of I want to say 24 episodes, I think.
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But it's a short one, it's not it's not that big of a deal.
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So I'm pretty sure it's 24 total episodes from season one and season two.
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But it's a very fun show.
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The season finale definitely left some some cliffhangers, so we have some things to address in the next season.
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It also wrapped up a bunch of storylines, which I love in season finales or series finales, whichever one you want to call it.
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The animation was top tier for what Country Bumpkin was.
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It's not the best animation I've ever seen, but for what Country Bumpkin was, it was definitely really good animation.
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The main thing that I liked about Country Bumpkin is that it's a very simplistic story, and it doesn't necessarily, it's not necessarily like all about fights and all this kind of stuff.
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It is more of like a slice of life kind of situation with the occasional battles here and there, you know what I'm saying?
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So I think that uh Country Bumpkin has always been in this in this anime season like my change of pace anime, uh, considering, like I said, it doesn't have that much battle in comparison to everything else that I watch.
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And I just enjoy the story of Master Barrel trying to find his place in the Royal Capitol.
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Him having all of these uh much younger female suitors, I think is a very interesting wrinkle in the show, as opposed to what it is on the other side, where it's a female who has a bunch of suitors or a male who collects a bunch of harem.
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Uh, I think that this anime does a good job of just being what it is, which is an older man trying to find his way in the world with his new position being fawned over by females that actually respect him for what for what he's done for them, as opposed to just having like a kind of like lustful relationship towards him.
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It's more of like respect in that way.
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So I think it's just a really good dynamic of a show to watch, which is why I really much enjoy very much enjoyed it.
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And it's uh definitely one that we've talked about on the pod, and I wanted to definitely talk about in terms of the finales because I enjoyed the season, I enjoyed the finale, and if you haven't seen From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, I would say definitely go watch it.
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It's two seasons, 24 episodes, not too much heavy lifting.
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You could watch it in sub or dub.
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I watched it in dub, but for the season finale, I switched it to sub just to check it out.
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Uh, in my opinion, for this anime, the sub is definitely better than the than the dub.
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So if you you know, if you watch either one, I would I would say do the sub for this one.
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But the dub is fine.
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Um the next one I wanted to talk about was an anime called Black Torch.
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And the crazy thing about Black Torch was I didn't know anything about it before I started watching it.
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And once I started watching it, I immediately saw the comparisons between this and and Naruto, because you have your main character, Jiro, who gets a demon put into his body.
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You have the uh his two teammates.
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He has his one teammate, Ichika, and then I want to say his other teammate is named uh, I gotta think right now.
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Hold on.
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And his other teammate is Reiji.
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So that's your that's your team right there.
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So you got Jiro, who's basically your Naruto, you got Ichika, who's like your Sakura, and then you got Reiji, who's like your Sasuke, and their personalities pretty much match those characters.
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So Jiro and Naruto very uh brash.
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They don't really think, not strategic, but very like powerful.
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You have Naruto who has the nine-tail fox inside his body, whereas Jira Jiro has a Mononoke named Rago.
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You got Ichika in the Sakura role, which is kind of similar, except for she's Ichika is more closely related to Shipuden Sakura than regular Naruto Sakura.
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She's like not useless, where like Sakura in the early stages of Naruto was very much useless, very much on Sasuke, but in Shipudin, she actually became very useful, very uh powerful.
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So Ichika's closer to the Shipudin style of Sakura.
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And then Reiji is like Sasuke in the way that he has a brother who he needs to kill or save or whatever, however you want to look at it.
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His brother also slaughtered their whole family, so it's like Sasuke is right there.
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He also uses a sword similar to Sasuke, and his personality is similar to Sasuke for sure.
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So it just watching that show gave me real Naruto vibes.
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And the whole time I was watching it, people would tell me on TikTok they don't know why this anime got a release because the manga was already canceled, I apparently.
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Um, and I had just like started looking into this probably like six or seven episodes into the season and seasons series, the series, I should say.
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There's only 12 episodes.
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And so in watching the anime, I was interested, but then finding out that the manga was already canceled, and that apparently the anime had already gone past anything that the manga had done.
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So it was kind of weird that it had its own anime at that point, but it ended up only being 12 episodes, and those 12 episodes went by so fast, like so much happened in the 12 episodes that it was kind of jarring at times.
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The training sequence in like a normal anime that would take about four or five episodes in this anime only took two.
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The boss battle that they were working up to in a normal anime would have taken maybe one to two seasons, and in this episode it took place in, or in this season it took place in one and a half episodes, maybe we got to the big boss fight.
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And so that was a little disappointing because I thought this show had potential um outside of the obvious Naruto parallels.
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I was looking forward to it separating itself from those Naruto comparisons as the show went on, only to find out that this is an anime that has only 12 episodes, and that's it, because there's no more source material.
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So if there is going to be a season two, it's gonna be all original material, anime only kind of stuff, which I kind of am looking forward to, but at the same time, I feel like it was kind of a waste of time to make this anime, watch this anime when there is no season two and there is no more source material for it.
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So, like, why did we make this, you know, and I'm all for anime originals, but once we get past season one, like you gotta have something else on the backside.
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Because now the way the season ended with Jiro going against the big, big, bad Amagi and winning, from what we were told in that seat in that first season, Amagi was like the top of the line, you know.
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So if the story's gonna go forward, you need to establish a new villain, why he's stronger than Amagi, why he would be after Jiro, like all these different things.
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But it's I'm not saying it's not possible, but this this uh first season of anime, and by extension, the season finale, series finale was definitely a bummer for Black Torch, you know.
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So that was um one of my most disappointing ones.
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What are some of the other ones I said I wanted to talk about?
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Oh, Demons of the Shadow Realm.
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So Demons of the Shadow Realm, I believe, had 24 episodes total for the first season because it started not in summer, started a little bit.
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I wanted to say it started in the spring, spring situation.
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Yeah, so it started in spring, started April 4th, but it just finished up, I want to say, like last week.
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And this one I feel like was really good.
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The last two to three episodes on Demons of the Shadow Realm was not fun because it was basically just wrapping up the season, you know, putting people where they're supposed to be at, um, you know, setting up the new season, things like that, getting getting the characters where they're supposed to be at.
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So, you know, Asa and Yoru, you know, they're trying to like figure out where they're where they're going.
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You know, Yudu is going back with his with his people, Deta, and like his house and stuff, whereas Asa goes back to the uh well Asa goes back to the Kagamori clan.
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So that's kind of where we started the season.
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It's kind of where we ended the season.
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Um we do have a lot more mysteries about what's going on in terms of the daemons and things like that, but just broad strokes for the for the show.
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I very much enjoyed the power system.
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I enjoyed the the daemons because there's pretty much unlimited possibilities for uh daemon pairs in terms of what their powers could be.
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I very much enjoy that there has to be two that daemons come in pairs.
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I love that.
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I think that that's a really cool thing about the power system.
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And then this the show definitely left me wanting more.
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So I want to know more about the Damons.
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I want to know more about Yudu and Asa's powers, I want to know more about the relationship between Higasashi Village, the Kagamori clan, and there's a new clan that got introduced towards the end of the season that is a new player in the whole situation.
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So I want to know more about that.
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There's a lot of characters in this that I like.
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I very much enjoy Gabby.
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I very much enjoy left and right.
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The Demons, though, they're very funny.
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In terms of the villains, Ivan, the the dude who's wielding two katana daemons, like that dude.
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He's like insane.
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So there's a lot of characters I enjoy in this one as well.
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I enjoy the art style, especially because it's so familiar to me coming from the full metal alchemist writer.
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It just looks just like full metal alchemist.
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And the difference between this one and Black Torch is Black Torch felt like Naruto, and it never really separated itself, and that was like a problem for me.
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Whereas this one felt like Full Metal Alchemist in the beginning, but immediately separated itself from from that, from that comparison.
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Because even though they're the same authors, this is a completely different story.
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The only thing that's similar so far is the art style between Damien Zilla Shadow Realm and Full Metal Alchemist.
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But I think that's more of a studio thing than an author thing.
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And the stories aren't aren't the same at all.
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You can't really like if you didn't know that they were the same author, you wouldn't be able to notice.
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And that's what I liked about this.
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Uh, because you know, when we're talking about other stuff that have the same author, like Mao, for instance.
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We're not going to talk about Mao today, but I wanted to touch on it.
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Um, Mao is made by the creator of Inuyasha, and you can see the influences of Inuyasha and that story on Mao.
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It has a lot of the same kind of things going on in that story, Inuyasha and Mao, and you can tell it's from the same author.
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Whereas this one in Damons of the Shadow Realm, you can't really tell that it's from the same author.
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Because of the not because of the art style, you can tell, but because of the story, you wouldn't you wouldn't even know.
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And that's definitely something that I liked for sure about this one.
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And so for summer, Damons of the Shadow Realm was really good, Country Bumpkin was really good, Black Torch was mid at best.
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But these three definitely are below One Piece and Digimon Beat Break for sure.
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And I might be a little crazy here, but I think Digimon Beat Break is the best anime that just finished up.
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And I'm gonna say that again.
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I think Digimon Beat Break is the best anime that just finished.
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From start to finish, 49 episodes, Digimon Beat Break was better than any other anime that aired in the summer season for sure.
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So don't get me wrong, One Piece was very, very good this season.
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And I think that One Piece going seasonal was the best option for One Piece because where we're at in the story, I think it does require a better animation staff and animation team to bring the story to life the way it needs to be brought to life, and I feel like with One Piece being seasonal, they were able to do that.
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They were able to bring, I believe it was 24 episodes for that one as well for this season, but all of them were like movie quality episodes, you know, just top-tier animation the whole time, top-tier character work, top tier everything.
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And I feel like the overall tone and way that this new season was actually animated for One Piece, I thought it was like actually amazing, was really, really good.
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So I'm perfectly okay with them going seasonal.
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I just don't think that overall the season of One Piece beats this one season of Digimon, and that's just kind of where I'm at on it.
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As far as One Piece goes, the fights were amazing.
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The place that we left off with this season finale was was great.
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So we got emu coming in from Gunko.
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We've got Somers and Killingham about to get into get into action for real.
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Luffy, Zoro, Loki haven't even joined the fight yet.
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We just got Dory and Brogy being dummy reversied by by uh Gunko slash Emu.
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So like a lot of stuff is happening in One Piece right now.
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But this season of One Piece was generally just set up for the next season because this this season was just us getting the L BAF, getting our feet wet in terms of like where everybody's at, what's everybody doing.
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You know, we had the reunion with Saul and Robin, so we had to get that out of the way.
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Going to the library.
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You know, we met Loki.
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Obviously, that took a while.
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You know, Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, Hiriden are all in the underworld right now with Loki.
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Scott Pergabon just got knocked down to the underworld, so he's about to join them.
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That's gonna be next season.
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And the rest of the straw hats are tied up.
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So what we got at the end of this season of One Piece was a lot of setup for the next season, to be honest.
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And don't get me wrong, it was like I said, it was great, but there's definitely been better arcs in One Piece than this 24 episode stretch.
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We did get some hype moments when Gabon was introduced this season, this not this last episode, but the episode before we got Gabon versus Killingham for a little bit, which was pretty hyped.
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This last episode was the best animation that One Piece has ever had with the dummy reverse sequence with uh Dory and Brogy, the the whole sequence with Emu slash Gunko starting to use his slash her powers, pulling out the grimoire, you know, doing doing the the magic circles and all that kind of stuff to like activate the power.
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I thought it was really cool.
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There was a couple of impact frames in there that were awesome when it when it came to Gunko and Gunko slash emu in that in that battle right there.
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So that was very, very cool.
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The like I said, the One Piece anime has been on a tear when with its animation, and I think that it's just great that it's gone seasonal so that they have the time to fine-tune everything to make everything look absolutely beautiful.
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So I know that when the fights come around for Luffy and Loki versus Emu, and then you know Zorro versus Somers and Sanji versus Killingham, those fights are gonna be animated absolutely crazy.
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So I'm excited for that.
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But my number one, my number one with with a bullet for this this summer anime finale season part that we're talking about right now, definitely Digimon Beat Break.
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Everything in Digimon Beat Break, the whole series, but even though that that finale was absolutely perfect.
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Perfect.
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You can't get better than that.
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It closes up so many of the different plot points.
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Pretty much every character we met in the entirety of the season was a factor in the last couple of episodes, which I thought was awesome.
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So it made it so that even the quote-unquote filler episodes that we got in this 49 episode run were not necessarily filler episodes.
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We got everything that I wanted in this.
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We've got we got the final, we got the mega evolutions for all of Digimon that we know.
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So we got Nosfrotmon, Atreitus Mon Apollo Mon.
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We've got the the former five stars with their megas.
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We got the tactics teams uh fully evolved into their, I want to say ultimate, ultimate forms.
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You know, we've got Makoto and Rika with their two megas, you know, at the end here.
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So Everyone we met showed up at the end to help against Saitan Gokumon and Samsamon.
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And it was it was awesome.
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You know, I want to talk about the end of the episode because at the end of the episode we get the reveal that everyone who had a sapatama got a Digimon.
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The glowing dawn still exists because they're still part of the cleaners.
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Because now that everyone has a Digimon, that does mean you know, Digimon crimes are gonna go up because you do have those people.
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So the Digi so the the Glowing Dawn still exists, so there's still an opportunity for Digimon Beat Break 02, which is amazing because I did not want this Digimon series to end here.
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I I still love Gekko Mon, Kirapmon, Pristy Mon.
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I love all three of them.
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Uh Makoto, Tomuro, and Rika.
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I feel like we could do some different, some different people, main characters, and Digimon partners.
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I feel like we could do that for sure in the next one.
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But the way that this ended, it left the door open for a continuation of Beat Break, and it also left the door open for a new for a continuation of Beat Break with these same characters, but also a new continuation with of Beatbreak with different characters, since every everyone in this world has a Digimon now.
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So I thought that was really cool.
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The thing that kind of took this episode down for me, honestly, was the Digivolutions of Gekko Mon's final form, which is you know Albatismon and Atreitus Mon.
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So Atismon being the Gekko Mon and Albatus Mon being the Helios Boamon mega.
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I thought that they those two megas were underwhelming, to be honest.
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In the anime at least.
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The pictures that they uploaded on the Digimon wiki page look really, really cool.
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And I think that those two designs are really cool.
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But the anime designs I don't like.
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I think that the they should have kept the capes on, first of all, in the anime, because the capes looked really, really cool as opposed to them without the capes.
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And they honestly just looked too too like power ranger-y for me when you took the capes off.
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It just it wasn't it the the two megas were not it.
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And then when they fused into Volvemon, I was I was definitely not impressed.
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Like, you know, the the conf that's been going around is like cubics, if you ever remember that show from Saturday morning cartoons back in the like late 90s, early 2000s, that's kind of what it looks like, and it just wasn't it just wasn't it, you know, and like the way that I judge Digimon is like if I'm playing a Digimon game, like I'm playing Digimon Time Stranger right now, would I want to go through the effort to get these Digimon?
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And it's like no, I wouldn't, because you know, Gekko Mon, for instance, I don't like his evolutionary line.
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I like Gekko Mon, I like Armalisamon, kinda monarch Lizimon, hate it.
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Atreitasmon, he kind of looks cool but kind of doesn't.
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And then the fusion between Atreitus Mon and Albatusmon, I hate it.
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So it's like, you know, if I'm playing a game and I have the opportunity to get Gekko Mon, it's just like, am I gonna evolve Gekko Mon all the way up to Volfman?
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Probably not.
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And I don't even think he looked the best out of those, out of, you know, his counterpart.
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I think Albatusmon looked better.
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The white and blue, I think looked better than the black and pink, you know, and I I just think that it was ultimately that part was ultimately a failure for me.
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Some people liked it, some people didn't, but I think that part was a failure.
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But other than that, the overall story that was told in Digimon Beat Break, the real things that happened, you know, Kyo getting his arm blown off, Muramasamon, Muramasamon getting, you know, deleted.
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He ultimately came back, but he was actually deleted for a while.
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You know, characters, like human characters actually dying, and that like shaping some of our characters in the glowing dawn.
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I thought that was really cool.
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And then just like the the themes of like human trafficking, uh, there was like class warfare in this, there was you know, um, talking about having to do like relying on technology too much, all those kinds of things were in this season of Digimon Beat Break, which I thought was really cool.
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And ultimately why I love Digimon is because of the more adult themes that seem to be present in the anime, as well as like the really cool Digivolution designs.
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But man, Digimon Beatbreak was definitely my favorite anime of the summer season for sure.
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It was absolutely amazing, and now I have a huge hole going into the fall anime lineup for what I'm gonna watch because summer was hitting.
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Like we still we're still waiting on the last two episodes of Bleach.
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Uh, and then I thought I believe there's a couple more that's still to finish up.
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But the summer anime season was was a banger, and fall was looking like it's gonna be good, but I think summer is probably gonna have it overall.
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We didn't even talk about Tomb Raider King, we didn't even talk about Mao for real.
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We didn't talk about Bleach, but there's so many other things that I'm watching right now.
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But um, we're just gonna wrap it up with those those five, and on the other side of this break, spoilers ahead for lanterns episode seven, because that's what we're gonna be talking about on the other side of this break.
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So, spoilers for lanterns episode seven, other side of this break.
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All right, spoilers ahead for lanterns episode seven, entitled The Jordan Boys Legacy.
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Okay, I'm gonna give you a quick recap and then we're gonna go through the episode.
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So we start episode seven where we left episode six, John digging up Hal's body to grab the ring, grabs the ring.
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We get the hologram, and then we are with John and the halogram the whole episode.
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We do get a Hal Jordan 1975 flashback when he's a kid, uh, having to do with a baseball game.
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So we get that info on his his dad, things like that.
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We get a Sheriff Carey moment with the halogram.
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We open the box in the storage unit, and then we also go to another planet where we find Sinestro.
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And that's gonna be Lanterns episode seven, Synapsis.
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Okay.
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But let's talk about this episode.
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So we start in 1975 with the Hal Jordan flashback.
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And in this flashback, Hal Jordan's in the office with his coach, and the coach is telling him to give the baseball back.
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Hal doesn't want to give the baseball back because he almost completed a complete game, and the coach took him out with one, there was what out and no runners on, and he just needed to get the last two strikeouts for the complete game.
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Coach is going to take him out.
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Hal didn't want to hand over the ball, and so his team ended up forfeiting because he didn't want to hand over the ball.
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This transition into his dad coming in, talking to the coach, and Hal's dad ends up fighting the coach because he agreed he shouldn't have taken him out.
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And so that's kind of where we get the Hal Jordan entitlement, stubbornness, and reinforcement of those behaviors in that moment.
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So just like John or Hal not wanting to let go of the baseball, he also doesn't didn't want to let go of the ring.
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And we can kind of see those behaviors manifesting even when he was a little child.
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So after that, we get some imagery of John or Hal and his dad, you know, sitting, hanging out.
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Um, both of them have black eyes, so they were both fighting, eating popsicles.
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Ed Hal's father tells him kind of about the Jordan, the Jordan boys legacy, which we'll get back to in a little bit.
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But his dad gives him a necklace with a key on it that has uh is the key to his safe and tells him if anything happens, go to his safe.
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And how's father dies shortly after this encounter.
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That's the end of the flashback.
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But we will touch back on some of those themes later.
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In talking about the initial flashback scenario, we do get some more character depth to Hal Jordan because we learn about, you know, the relationship he had with his father.
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We also learned a little bit about Hal's father's actual backstory as opposed to the one that he's been telling people that his father died in a plane crash when it seems like that wasn't the case in this uh iteration, which I don't mind them changing.
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I don't mind them changing the origin of Hal's father because it doesn't ultimately change too much about how Jordan's character, but it does give you some more information about his character, which I thought is a good use of a flashback, especially this late into the season when we only have one more episode left.
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So getting that would be getting that character depth is really cool in this moment for sure, and seeing the way that Hal's father treated him in that moment shows us a lot about why Hal kept his father in such high regard.
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But we flash back to 2026, where the halogram is trying to come to terms with his own death, you know.
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So he's asking John questions about what's going on, like why is he dead, what like why is he digging up the grave, you know, and starts asking all these questions, and John kind of just gets him gets him away because he's not really ready for that conversation at that moment.
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Um I thought this was very interesting, it's just a small point, but John calls his brothers for$315,000,$315,000, and they argue about it uh because he's being extorted by Maggie, which I want to talk about that a little bit later, but I just thought that was a little ridiculous.
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So John takes the halogram to try to open the box in the storage, and the halogram starts being difficult because he doesn't necessarily trust John at this point, considering that he's just been murdered, and he's trying to, you know, kind of figure it out.
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So while John is trying to tell the hologram, you know, I just need your voice to open this box, like let's let's get it done.
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Hal is being stubborn in this moment and deciding not to use his voice and starts negotiating to open the box.
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And the things that he negotiates is he wants to go see see Sheriff Carey.
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And initially, he didn't know that Hal and Carrie had a relationship.
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He just wanted to speak to the authorities, and then it's found out that he wants to go see Sheriff Carey because of the relationship and because she's the sheriff.
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So, first attempt at going to go open this box doesn't work because the halogram wants to go talk to Sheriff Carey.
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On the way to going to meet with Sheriff Carey, the hologram appears by itself after John gets a phone call from his mom, and the phone call prompts him to start thinking about Hal, which is why the hologram appears, and they start having a conversation.
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John isn't really trying to hear it at this point, so he takes off the ring, puts it on, puts it down in the car, and the halogram gives John a compliment for being able to hold the constru the construct without wearing the ring.
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And this is important because while Hal was alive, Hal never complimented him.
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Hal never let him know like if he was doing a good job.
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He never really taught him anything as a trainee.
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It was it was all pretty much strife and pain when they were together.
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But the halogram being able to compliment John and showing showing John a different side or a different version of Hal Jordan was very important in this moment.
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And you could just tell by the look on John's face how like happy he was to receive that compliment from Hal or the Hologram at this point.
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So it was pretty awesome.
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So in during the course of all of this happening, the hologram is trying to figure out what happened, like what's been going down in the 10 years that he's been going going on.
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So he asks asks John, and John tells him, like, hey, you've been in jail, like all this all this stuff happened, and this is all taking place around the Green Lantern signal that's in the in the town.
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So the Halogram starts asking about like, hey, why is this signal here?
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Why are these names here?
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Who put this here?
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And then that's when John starts filling him in about the events of Rushville, how going to prison, Guy Gardner being the new Green Lantern, all of those kind of things.
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And that is just like John being able to retell these events to the Halogram is kind of important because we are getting to see a different version of Hal Jordan at this point.
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And you can tell that with every interaction, that John is starting to soften his stance to Hal Jordan in general, because he can see that the Hal Jordan that he met was a lot different of a person than the Hal Jordan 10 years prior, who this consciousness is based off of.
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And so the relationship that's building between the Halogram and John is very wholesome compared in comparison to the relationship that Hal and John had when Hal was still alive.
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Because Hal was very cynical, he was very uh stubborn, selfish, he was also uh very much conflicted in where he was at in his life, what John represented to his position in life, and that's why John got the asshole version of Hal Jordan, whereas this version is not necessarily that jaded at this point.
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Um, so we move on from John and Hal talking about the light to them going to try to find Sheriff Carey, and they find a note that share the sheriff and the whole town is basically at the hat ceremony for Noah and where he's gonna pick his college and everything like that.
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And this is the part where I want to talk about Maggie extorting John because they get to the hat ceremony at the high school, John parks, and Maggie walks right up to the car and she's like, Yo, you got my money.
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And he's like, I don't have your money, I'm gonna have it later, I'm working on it, whatever.
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She ends up taking his watch from him, which I think is crazy.
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Because all of this, all of this is happening with Maggie, because John didn't want to tell Sheriff Carey that he was the last one to see Hal Jordan and that he was the one to break his nose, which I think is stupid, because he could just say, hey, like, I know this is gonna sound weird, but I'm the one who broke Jordan's nose.
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He called me here, we got into an argument, I punched him, and I left.
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You know, when you called me X amount of hours after and told me he died, I had nothing to do with that.
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And because of John and Carrie's relationship, she should be a little bit more open to those kind of facts, especially since you know, she knew that John and Hal had a relationship prior to this whole situation going down.
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So I feel like he should have just been able to tell her, and this whole extortion plot is just kind of null and void.
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I think plus, I also think it's stupid that this girl is coming after John when John had nothing to do with anything that happened to her.
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The only thing that John had anything to do with her is he gave her the watch at the end of episode five and said, I'm sorry.
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So like why is this girl even going after John in the first place?
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I don't know.
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It seems like a weird plot point in this back three episodes of the season to be like constantly touched upon.
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I think it's ridiculous.
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And I think this little girl needs to go on and get.
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She needs to just get, you know, because like I said, John had nothing to do with the whole situation of why she got blown up.
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If she really knew what happened, she would know that it was Zoe or the manhunter who did the blowing up of everything.
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Or at the very least, that it was Anton who did everything, or if you don't want to go with either of those two, it was Hal.
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But John wasn't even there until the end.
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Like when John got there to give the girl the watch, the hospital the the motel was already blown up.
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That's when it blew up.
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So he had nothing to do.
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He wasn't even there, like, to do anything with that girl.
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But anyway, that's just my little rant on that that whole situation, because I think it's so stupid.
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The other thing about this episode, which stood out in like a very dumb way, is this hat ceremony for Noah.
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First of all, whatever, we saw the colleges on the table.
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It looked like it was Navy, Nebraska, Michigan, and then there might have been one other college.
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Okay, whatever.
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But wanting to do the hat ceremony with your offensive line in general, very admirable.
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But in this show, in rural Nebraska, you're expecting me to believe that those kids that went up on the stage for him, where it's his offensive line, that offensive line in Nebraska is getting run over.
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The heaviest kid on that on that thing looked like he was about like 5'10, 2260.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, you're not protecting anything in rural Nebraska.
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His offensive line looked weak.
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Very sad.
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And so for him to be a four or five-star prospect with behind that offensive line is actually crazy.
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They could have found some better kids for the offensive line, but I just wanted to mention that because I thought it was weird.
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And then Billy, Billy Macon coming up to John in the in the hat ceremony, like he was really gonna do something when you literally just got washed the last episode, you and your four homies, you really gonna walk up to him and try to like start something at this point?
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Like, Billy, go sit down, bro.
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And that's essentially what Carrie said when she walked over to him, like, hey bro, go sit down and bring that fucking dip when you come over later.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And that was kind of that.
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I just thought that was really weird.
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But John and Carrie then go to a secluded room to talk about the halogram, and while John is explaining what the what's about to happen with the halogram, the halogram just shows up and is like, you're over-explaining.
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And John and Carrie and Halogram all have a conversation where the hologram is trying to ascertain what's going on with Sheriff Carrie because the way he the way she touched him made the hologram think that Carrie killed him ultimately.
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But during this conversation, they ask the hologram asks how Hal felt about John.
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And I thought this was a great analogy, and she's she explains that Hal thought John thought of John as like the football team you watch every sud every Sunday, and this really resonated with me as a Raiders fan because it describes my team perfectly, where you go into it and you have so much hope, and then by the end of the day or the end of the game, all that hope has been taken from you because you're just so disappointed in what just happened.
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It's not really like that for me this season because the Raiders are 3-0, but in general, that's how it goes.
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So I thought that was very uh very intimate and and kind of thought that that was was very funny.
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And Hal also asked Carrie if she knew about his father, which was important because it it shows that that Hal at one point.
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Was very open with her about things in his past that John didn't even know, obviously, to that point.
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But after this conversation, they leave, and the hologram is like, Yo, we need to go to the storage unit now.
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I don't trust Carrie.
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I think she I think she killed me.
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And you know, John's like, Yeah, aren't you being a little paranoid?
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And he's like, Bro, I I just got murdered, so like I think I can be paranoid.
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Which I thought was kind of funny.
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And this is gonna take us to the back half of the episode where they're no longer in Rushville, but they end up going to the other planet.
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So instead of waiting for Carrie to get done with the party and stuff that she has for Noah and go to the storage unit with them, they decide to go to the storage unit by themselves, and they open the storage unit to find a backpack with supplies in it.
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So there's a poncho, some protein bars, and a canteen, and then a grocery bag that literally has an intergalactic portal in it.
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So a paper grocery bag that has a portal in it.
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Really crazy that what's in this box.
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And so Hal opens the portal, the Hologram opens the portal, takes a look, and he says, Hey, the the planet that this links to looks to have air, breathable air, so we're good.
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As they're about to take the portal, halogram's like, you know what, we should move it because we don't want Sheriff Carey coming to the storage later and we're on the other planet, and then she starts messing with the portal.
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So they move it to a different location so that they can go to it, and they take it to the fallen water tower, which I thought was interesting.
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So inside the fallen, the water towers fell over in episode, I want to say five, when Hal was fighting against Zoe.
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She knocks down the water tower that has all the black gas in it that you know disabled the Green Lantern ring.
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That water tower was obviously never rebuilt.
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So that's where they went inside the actual structure of the water tower to set up this portal so that they could kind of be like a little bit more secluded.
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And one thing I thought was interesting before they took the portal was John asks the halogram to ask if he's afraid.
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So the halogram was like, okay, asked him, Are you afraid?
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And John responds, Hell no.
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Excuse me.
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Fuck no.
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So I thought that was really interesting that he had the halogram ask him that in that moment.
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I thought that was very interesting.
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We don't really get a reason why he wanted to ask him that, but he did.
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And then so they land on this desert planet, and it is absolutely deserted.
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Absolute desert.
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They're just the portal brings them to basically the middle of nowhere.
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And John says he feels like he's been there before, asks the hologram, like why they would why Hal would have been there, you know, and then as they start exploring, they look up in the sky and see that there's a city in the sky, and John projects the hologram up into the sky city so that he can, you know, kind of explore it.
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And while John's on the ground, he picks up a s a skull fragment, and then that's where he remembers why the planet feels so familiar to him, and we find out it's the same planet that Anton was from, and he starts recalling the memories that he got from Anton when he was captured.
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And Anton showed him the devast the destruction and devastation of the planet due to the manhunters' interactions.
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So once the halogram comes back, they, you know, establish that there's some sort of fear gas that the manhunters deployed on this planet, and the people started jumping from the Sky City to the ground because they were so scared and hallucinating.
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It was kind of a weird way to find out that that's what happened to the people of that planet, but it is it is kind of crazy.
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So they continue the journey on this planet to they're going to this kind of like body of water, kind of has like a lighthouse kind of situation, is where they're going.
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And they end up getting on a boat to paddle out into where this lighthouse is, and that's where John has his own hallucinations, and it starts raining down apples in this boat.
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He sees a vision of his father with the apple on his head, telling him to shoot, shoot, are you afraid?
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Then he gets a flash of himself as a child with the apple on his head, asking about if he's afraid, if he's afraid, and then suddenly he falls into the water, and then we get the hologram pulling him out, and we re we we see that John was about to shoot himself with the gut, and the hologram saved his life in that moment, and then that's when we get filled in about the fear gas still being in the atmosphere, in the water, in the air, all that kind of stuff, and that's what made John hallucinate.
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It's also in this moment after the hologram saves him that the hologram tells tells John about the Jordan boy's legacy and about how his father left him a note in his safe talking about all the pain that he was feeling, basically the the pain of wanting to kill himself his whole life.
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And it was a similar note that his grandfather left his father, and it's a similar note that Hal's father left him.
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And so after this, we get this revelation from the Halogram talking about his father.
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He alludes to the fact that he might have killed himself based on this revelation of what the Jordan family, like the Jordan boys' legacy is.
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Um, I do want to dispute that.
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We are gonna talk about that a little bit in Theory Corner, but we'll so we'll talk about it in a little bit.
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Last thing that happens, John loses the gun, whatever.
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He fell in the water, lost it in the water, but they land on shore, and then a mysterious figure takes the hologram hostage.
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Now, I have some thoughts on this as well, but takes the hologram hostage, says, Hey, if you don't give me your boat, tell me where your portal is, I'm gonna kill him.
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Obviously, it's a hologram, John doesn't care.
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He's like, Yo, go ahead, kill him, doesn't matter.
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Hologram's like, whatever.
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You know, hologram disappears, John decks this person in the face, and this person turns out to be Sinestro, and that's where we end this episode.
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John and Sinestro looking at each other with one more episode to go.
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We're gonna see what happens.
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Now, this episode was a little bit more straightforward for as compared to other episodes.
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There's not as much like theory crafting, there's not as much uh depth or anything.
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This the scenes were very straightforward, so there's not much uh reading into it as some of the other episodes.
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Um, this episode seemed very quick when when I was watching it.
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It seemed not as dense in terms of the information and like what we're getting from the characters outside of exposition, so facial expressions, you know, other other character interactions, body language, all that kind of stuff.
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All that kind of stuff was lacking in this episode.
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So that's why it was to me very quick and very to the point.
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Everything was pretty much on the nose in terms of what we needed to know, how we found out it was just given to you through exposition.
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The only thing that wasn't given through exposition was Hal's relationship to the baseball and how that informed his relationship to the ring later.
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Because one thing about the baseball that I didn't mention was that his father, you know, after they were talking and stuff, made him throw the baseball.
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And then after he threw the baseball at the end of the episode, after the funeral, Hal goes and picks up the baseball that he was holding to begin the episode.
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And it just kind of shows you that like Hal couldn't let go of things.
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You know, if he thought something was his, he was gonna take it and keep it, cherish it, you know, and he did that same thing with the ring.
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And so I just thought that this episode was more straightforward and doesn't necessarily require too much uh in-depth conversation like we would normally have, but this episode was good.
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I would say that this episode is the weakest episode of the season so far, in my opinion.
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I thought it was last week, but on like I rewatched last week's episode three times, and after the third time, I realized that you know it was a good episode last week.
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I do still think that the best episode of the season is episode three, uh, John's backstory episode.
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I thought that that that episode was fantastic, but episode six was was pretty good after, like I said, I watched it three times.
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This episode right here was wasn't bad.
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It was still a good episode, but it was like I said, it lacked the depth and um different narration techniques that have been deployed in other episodes to make them a little bit more interesting.
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Whereas this one was a lot of surface level type interactions that didn't really uh contribute to the conspiracy or anything like that going forward.
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Like we got a very brief shot of Noah, which is we're bleeding in a theory corner a little bit, but we got very, very brief uh Noah interaction in this episode.
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And so if we still think Noah's a manhunter, you would think that he's gonna get a little bit more screen time in this in this episode, considering there's only one more episode left.
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But I don't know if that's gonna be the case.
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Um, what do we have going on with Sinestro?
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What is what is this Sinestro and John link up gonna produce?
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That's kind of what I'm looking forward to.
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What do we got going on with with Sheriff Carey?
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And because the Halogram at one point thought that Sheriff Carey was the one who killed him, so that's something that we might need to explore if you're John.
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Like I said, we've got the Noah might still be a manhunter situation, so we got that going for next week.
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And my main concern going forward is what are we doing with Sinestro?
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Because Sinestro is that guy, and from what Hal and John have shown so far, they are not as presently constructed, they are not ready for Sinestro.
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In particular, John.
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I don't think John mentally is ready for the games that Sinestro can play, and I'm excited to see where that relationship goes, not only at the end of this season, but like going forward in the DCU, because you can't you gotta think that Sinestro is gonna be a big part of the DCU going forward.
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So I'm just excited for for that whole situation going forward with Sinestro and John, as opposed to being Sinestro and Hal.
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I I want to see how that dynamic plays out.
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I also want to get a Guardian's check-in.
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So this with there being with there being one more episode left, the things I need from this last episode.
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I need the Guardian's check-in.
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I need the relationship set up between John and Sinestro.
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I need this Maggie situation dealt with, handled, get her out of here, get get get her out of this whole situation.
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I don't care about that storyline at all.
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Like either pay her the money or or or get her out of here, whatever.
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And I need to need resolution on if Noah is a manhunter or not.
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Those are the four things I'm gonna need from this season finale for it to be really good.
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Because if I don't get those things, I I think it's gonna be a I think it'll be kind of a failed season because they're not they're not landing the plane at this point.
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But I think they I think they can land the plane, and I think it's it's looking good.
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So that's gonna be our episode.
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We just wrapped Theory Corner into into the summary as opposed to making it a different segment, so that's why we just did that.
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Theory corner's real real short on this episode.
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But um, I appreciate you guys.
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And I will see you guys next week for the season finale of lanterns.
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It's gonna probably be a lanterns only pod next week.
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We'll see.
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But it's gonna be lanterns heavy for sure.
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But I will see you guys next week.
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Thank you for listening to Nerd Vibes Mamba out.
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Welcome to Nerd Vibes.
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I'm your host, Armed Dark Mamba, aka Ray.
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On today's episode, we are going to be talking about the anime summer season finales.
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So that's going to be One Piece, Digimon B Break.
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We're going to talk about Black Torch, Country Pumpkin, Demons of the Shadow Realm.
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That's five right there.
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So I think we'll probably stick with those five.
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Maybe a little bit more we'll touch on.
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But we're going to talk about the summer anime finales.
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Then once we're done with that, we are going to get into our discussion about lanterns episode seven, the penultimate, which is the episode before the finale.
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So we got one more episode at lanterns.
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And then after we talk about lanterns, going forward on the podcast, we're going to be talking about Vision Quest.
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So gotta get ready for that.
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But on the other side of this break, we're going to be talking about anime summer season finales, some series finales.
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But we're going to be talking about anime summer season on the other side of this break.
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Alright, we are back.
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So I wanted to talk about the summer anime finales that we got over this past week or so.
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And some of them were amazing, top tier, absolutely fantastic.
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And then some of them were underwhelming, to say the least.
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But I think we're I think we said five that we're gonna talk about.
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And uh the first one I want to start with is gonna be Old Country Bunkin' Turnmaster Swordsman.
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So we are in, I want to say season two for that one.
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Total of I want to say 24 episodes, I think.
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But it's a short one, it's not it's not that big of a deal.
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So I'm pretty sure it's 24 total episodes from season one and season two.
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But it's a very fun show.
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The season finale definitely left some some cliffhangers, so we have some things to address in the next season.
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It also wrapped up a bunch of storylines, which I love in season finales or series finales, whichever one you want to call it.
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The animation was top tier for what Country Bumpkin was.
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It's not the best animation I've ever seen, but for what Country Bumpkin was, it was definitely really good animation.
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The main thing that I liked about Country Bumpkin is that it's a very simplistic story, and it doesn't necessarily, it's not necessarily like all about fights and all this kind of stuff.
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It is more of like a slice of life kind of situation with the occasional battles here and there, you know what I'm saying?
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So I think that uh Country Bumpkin has always been in this in this anime season like my change of pace anime, uh, considering, like I said, it doesn't have that much battle in comparison to everything else that I watch.
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And I just enjoy the story of Master Barrel trying to find his place in the Royal Capitol.
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Him having all of these uh much younger female suitors, I think is a very interesting wrinkle in the show, as opposed to what it is on the other side, where it's a female who has a bunch of suitors or a male who collects a bunch of harem.
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Uh, I think that this anime does a good job of just being what it is, which is an older man trying to find his way in the world with his new position being fawned over by females that actually respect him for what for what he's done for them, as opposed to just having like a kind of like lustful relationship towards him.
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It's more of like respect in that way.
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So I think it's just a really good dynamic of a show to watch, which is why I really much enjoy very much enjoyed it.
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And it's uh definitely one that we've talked about on the pod, and I wanted to definitely talk about in terms of the finales because I enjoyed the season, I enjoyed the finale, and if you haven't seen From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, I would say definitely go watch it.
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It's two seasons, 24 episodes, not too much heavy lifting.
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You could watch it in sub or dub.
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I watched it in dub, but for the season finale, I switched it to sub just to check it out.
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Uh, in my opinion, for this anime, the sub is definitely better than the than the dub.
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So if you you know, if you watch either one, I would I would say do the sub for this one.
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But the dub is fine.
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Um the next one I wanted to talk about was an anime called Black Torch.
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And the crazy thing about Black Torch was I didn't know anything about it before I started watching it.
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And once I started watching it, I immediately saw the comparisons between this and and Naruto, because you have your main character, Jiro, who gets a demon put into his body.
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You have the uh his two teammates.
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He has his one teammate, Ichika, and then I want to say his other teammate is named uh, I gotta think right now.
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Hold on.
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And his other teammate is Reiji.
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So that's your that's your team right there.
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So you got Jiro, who's basically your Naruto, you got Ichika, who's like your Sakura, and then you got Reiji, who's like your Sasuke, and their personalities pretty much match those characters.
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So Jiro and Naruto very uh brash.
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They don't really think, not strategic, but very like powerful.
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You have Naruto who has the nine-tail fox inside his body, whereas Jira Jiro has a Mononoke named Rago.
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You got Ichika in the Sakura role, which is kind of similar, except for she's Ichika is more closely related to Shipuden Sakura than regular Naruto Sakura.
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She's like not useless, where like Sakura in the early stages of Naruto was very much useless, very much on Sasuke, but in Shipudin, she actually became very useful, very uh powerful.
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So Ichika's closer to the Shipudin style of Sakura.
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And then Reiji is like Sasuke in the way that he has a brother who he needs to kill or save or whatever, however you want to look at it.
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His brother also slaughtered their whole family, so it's like Sasuke is right there.
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He also uses a sword similar to Sasuke, and his personality is similar to Sasuke for sure.
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So it just watching that show gave me real Naruto vibes.
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And the whole time I was watching it, people would tell me on TikTok they don't know why this anime got a release because the manga was already canceled, I apparently.
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Um, and I had just like started looking into this probably like six or seven episodes into the season and seasons series, the series, I should say.
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There's only 12 episodes.
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And so in watching the anime, I was interested, but then finding out that the manga was already canceled, and that apparently the anime had already gone past anything that the manga had done.
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So it was kind of weird that it had its own anime at that point, but it ended up only being 12 episodes, and those 12 episodes went by so fast, like so much happened in the 12 episodes that it was kind of jarring at times.
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The training sequence in like a normal anime that would take about four or five episodes in this anime only took two.
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The boss battle that they were working up to in a normal anime would have taken maybe one to two seasons, and in this episode it took place in, or in this season it took place in one and a half episodes, maybe we got to the big boss fight.
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And so that was a little disappointing because I thought this show had potential um outside of the obvious Naruto parallels.
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I was looking forward to it separating itself from those Naruto comparisons as the show went on, only to find out that this is an anime that has only 12 episodes, and that's it, because there's no more source material.
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So if there is going to be a season two, it's gonna be all original material, anime only kind of stuff, which I kind of am looking forward to, but at the same time, I feel like it was kind of a waste of time to make this anime, watch this anime when there is no season two and there is no more source material for it.
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So, like, why did we make this, you know, and I'm all for anime originals, but once we get past season one, like you gotta have something else on the backside.
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Because now the way the season ended with Jiro going against the big, big, bad Amagi and winning, from what we were told in that seat in that first season, Amagi was like the top of the line, you know.
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So if the story's gonna go forward, you need to establish a new villain, why he's stronger than Amagi, why he would be after Jiro, like all these different things.
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But it's I'm not saying it's not possible, but this this uh first season of anime, and by extension, the season finale, series finale was definitely a bummer for Black Torch, you know.
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So that was um one of my most disappointing ones.
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What are some of the other ones I said I wanted to talk about?
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Oh, Demons of the Shadow Realm.
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So Demons of the Shadow Realm, I believe, had 24 episodes total for the first season because it started not in summer, started a little bit.
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I wanted to say it started in the spring, spring situation.
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Yeah, so it started in spring, started April 4th, but it just finished up, I want to say, like last week.
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And this one I feel like was really good.
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The last two to three episodes on Demons of the Shadow Realm was not fun because it was basically just wrapping up the season, you know, putting people where they're supposed to be at, um, you know, setting up the new season, things like that, getting getting the characters where they're supposed to be at.
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So, you know, Asa and Yoru, you know, they're trying to like figure out where they're where they're going.
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You know, Yudu is going back with his with his people, Deta, and like his house and stuff, whereas Asa goes back to the uh well Asa goes back to the Kagamori clan.
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So that's kind of where we started the season.
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It's kind of where we ended the season.
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Um we do have a lot more mysteries about what's going on in terms of the daemons and things like that, but just broad strokes for the for the show.
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I very much enjoyed the power system.
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I enjoyed the the daemons because there's pretty much unlimited possibilities for uh daemon pairs in terms of what their powers could be.
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I very much enjoy that there has to be two that daemons come in pairs.
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I love that.
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I think that that's a really cool thing about the power system.
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And then this the show definitely left me wanting more.
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So I want to know more about the Damons.
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I want to know more about Yudu and Asa's powers, I want to know more about the relationship between Higasashi Village, the Kagamori clan, and there's a new clan that got introduced towards the end of the season that is a new player in the whole situation.
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So I want to know more about that.
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There's a lot of characters in this that I like.
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I very much enjoy Gabby.
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I very much enjoy left and right.
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The Demons, though, they're very funny.
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In terms of the villains, Ivan, the the dude who's wielding two katana daemons, like that dude.
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He's like insane.
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So there's a lot of characters I enjoy in this one as well.
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I enjoy the art style, especially because it's so familiar to me coming from the full metal alchemist writer.
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It just looks just like full metal alchemist.
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And the difference between this one and Black Torch is Black Torch felt like Naruto, and it never really separated itself, and that was like a problem for me.
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Whereas this one felt like Full Metal Alchemist in the beginning, but immediately separated itself from from that, from that comparison.
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Because even though they're the same authors, this is a completely different story.
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The only thing that's similar so far is the art style between Damien Zilla Shadow Realm and Full Metal Alchemist.
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But I think that's more of a studio thing than an author thing.
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And the stories aren't aren't the same at all.
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You can't really like if you didn't know that they were the same author, you wouldn't be able to notice.
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And that's what I liked about this.
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Uh, because you know, when we're talking about other stuff that have the same author, like Mao, for instance.
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We're not going to talk about Mao today, but I wanted to touch on it.
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Um, Mao is made by the creator of Inuyasha, and you can see the influences of Inuyasha and that story on Mao.
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It has a lot of the same kind of things going on in that story, Inuyasha and Mao, and you can tell it's from the same author.
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Whereas this one in Damons of the Shadow Realm, you can't really tell that it's from the same author.
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Because of the not because of the art style, you can tell, but because of the story, you wouldn't you wouldn't even know.
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And that's definitely something that I liked for sure about this one.
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And so for summer, Damons of the Shadow Realm was really good, Country Bumpkin was really good, Black Torch was mid at best.
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But these three definitely are below One Piece and Digimon Beat Break for sure.
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And I might be a little crazy here, but I think Digimon Beat Break is the best anime that just finished up.
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And I'm gonna say that again.
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I think Digimon Beat Break is the best anime that just finished.
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From start to finish, 49 episodes, Digimon Beat Break was better than any other anime that aired in the summer season for sure.
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So don't get me wrong, One Piece was very, very good this season.
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And I think that One Piece going seasonal was the best option for One Piece because where we're at in the story, I think it does require a better animation staff and animation team to bring the story to life the way it needs to be brought to life, and I feel like with One Piece being seasonal, they were able to do that.
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They were able to bring, I believe it was 24 episodes for that one as well for this season, but all of them were like movie quality episodes, you know, just top-tier animation the whole time, top-tier character work, top tier everything.
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And I feel like the overall tone and way that this new season was actually animated for One Piece, I thought it was like actually amazing, was really, really good.
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So I'm perfectly okay with them going seasonal.
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I just don't think that overall the season of One Piece beats this one season of Digimon, and that's just kind of where I'm at on it.
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As far as One Piece goes, the fights were amazing.
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The place that we left off with this season finale was was great.
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So we got emu coming in from Gunko.
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We've got Somers and Killingham about to get into get into action for real.
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Luffy, Zoro, Loki haven't even joined the fight yet.
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We just got Dory and Brogy being dummy reversied by by uh Gunko slash Emu.
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So like a lot of stuff is happening in One Piece right now.
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But this season of One Piece was generally just set up for the next season because this this season was just us getting the L BAF, getting our feet wet in terms of like where everybody's at, what's everybody doing.
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You know, we had the reunion with Saul and Robin, so we had to get that out of the way.
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Going to the library.
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You know, we met Loki.
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Obviously, that took a while.
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You know, Zoro, Sanji, Luffy, Hiriden are all in the underworld right now with Loki.
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Scott Pergabon just got knocked down to the underworld, so he's about to join them.
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That's gonna be next season.
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And the rest of the straw hats are tied up.
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So what we got at the end of this season of One Piece was a lot of setup for the next season, to be honest.
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And don't get me wrong, it was like I said, it was great, but there's definitely been better arcs in One Piece than this 24 episode stretch.
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We did get some hype moments when Gabon was introduced this season, this not this last episode, but the episode before we got Gabon versus Killingham for a little bit, which was pretty hyped.
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This last episode was the best animation that One Piece has ever had with the dummy reverse sequence with uh Dory and Brogy, the the whole sequence with Emu slash Gunko starting to use his slash her powers, pulling out the grimoire, you know, doing doing the the magic circles and all that kind of stuff to like activate the power.
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I thought it was really cool.
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There was a couple of impact frames in there that were awesome when it when it came to Gunko and Gunko slash emu in that in that battle right there.
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So that was very, very cool.
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The like I said, the One Piece anime has been on a tear when with its animation, and I think that it's just great that it's gone seasonal so that they have the time to fine-tune everything to make everything look absolutely beautiful.
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So I know that when the fights come around for Luffy and Loki versus Emu, and then you know Zorro versus Somers and Sanji versus Killingham, those fights are gonna be animated absolutely crazy.
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So I'm excited for that.
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But my number one, my number one with with a bullet for this this summer anime finale season part that we're talking about right now, definitely Digimon Beat Break.
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Everything in Digimon Beat Break, the whole series, but even though that that finale was absolutely perfect.
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Perfect.
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You can't get better than that.
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It closes up so many of the different plot points.
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Pretty much every character we met in the entirety of the season was a factor in the last couple of episodes, which I thought was awesome.
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So it made it so that even the quote-unquote filler episodes that we got in this 49 episode run were not necessarily filler episodes.
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We got everything that I wanted in this.
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We've got we got the final, we got the mega evolutions for all of Digimon that we know.
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So we got Nosfrotmon, Atreitus Mon Apollo Mon.
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We've got the the former five stars with their megas.
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We got the tactics teams uh fully evolved into their, I want to say ultimate, ultimate forms.
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You know, we've got Makoto and Rika with their two megas, you know, at the end here.
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So Everyone we met showed up at the end to help against Saitan Gokumon and Samsamon.
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And it was it was awesome.
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You know, I want to talk about the end of the episode because at the end of the episode we get the reveal that everyone who had a sapatama got a Digimon.
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The glowing dawn still exists because they're still part of the cleaners.
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Because now that everyone has a Digimon, that does mean you know, Digimon crimes are gonna go up because you do have those people.
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So the Digi so the the Glowing Dawn still exists, so there's still an opportunity for Digimon Beat Break 02, which is amazing because I did not want this Digimon series to end here.
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I I still love Gekko Mon, Kirapmon, Pristy Mon.
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I love all three of them.
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Uh Makoto, Tomuro, and Rika.
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I feel like we could do some different, some different people, main characters, and Digimon partners.
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I feel like we could do that for sure in the next one.
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But the way that this ended, it left the door open for a continuation of Beat Break, and it also left the door open for a new for a continuation of Beat Break with these same characters, but also a new continuation with of Beatbreak with different characters, since every everyone in this world has a Digimon now.
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So I thought that was really cool.
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The thing that kind of took this episode down for me, honestly, was the Digivolutions of Gekko Mon's final form, which is you know Albatismon and Atreitus Mon.
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So Atismon being the Gekko Mon and Albatus Mon being the Helios Boamon mega.
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I thought that they those two megas were underwhelming, to be honest.
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In the anime at least.
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The pictures that they uploaded on the Digimon wiki page look really, really cool.
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And I think that those two designs are really cool.
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But the anime designs I don't like.
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I think that the they should have kept the capes on, first of all, in the anime, because the capes looked really, really cool as opposed to them without the capes.
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And they honestly just looked too too like power ranger-y for me when you took the capes off.
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It just it wasn't it the the two megas were not it.
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And then when they fused into Volvemon, I was I was definitely not impressed.
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Like, you know, the the conf that's been going around is like cubics, if you ever remember that show from Saturday morning cartoons back in the like late 90s, early 2000s, that's kind of what it looks like, and it just wasn't it just wasn't it, you know, and like the way that I judge Digimon is like if I'm playing a Digimon game, like I'm playing Digimon Time Stranger right now, would I want to go through the effort to get these Digimon?
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And it's like no, I wouldn't, because you know, Gekko Mon, for instance, I don't like his evolutionary line.
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I like Gekko Mon, I like Armalisamon, kinda monarch Lizimon, hate it.
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Atreitasmon, he kind of looks cool but kind of doesn't.
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And then the fusion between Atreitus Mon and Albatusmon, I hate it.
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So it's like, you know, if I'm playing a game and I have the opportunity to get Gekko Mon, it's just like, am I gonna evolve Gekko Mon all the way up to Volfman?
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Probably not.
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And I don't even think he looked the best out of those, out of, you know, his counterpart.
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I think Albatusmon looked better.
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The white and blue, I think looked better than the black and pink, you know, and I I just think that it was ultimately that part was ultimately a failure for me.
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Some people liked it, some people didn't, but I think that part was a failure.
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But other than that, the overall story that was told in Digimon Beat Break, the real things that happened, you know, Kyo getting his arm blown off, Muramasamon, Muramasamon getting, you know, deleted.
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He ultimately came back, but he was actually deleted for a while.
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You know, characters, like human characters actually dying, and that like shaping some of our characters in the glowing dawn.
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I thought that was really cool.
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And then just like the the themes of like human trafficking, uh, there was like class warfare in this, there was you know, um, talking about having to do like relying on technology too much, all those kinds of things were in this season of Digimon Beat Break, which I thought was really cool.
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And ultimately why I love Digimon is because of the more adult themes that seem to be present in the anime, as well as like the really cool Digivolution designs.
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But man, Digimon Beatbreak was definitely my favorite anime of the summer season for sure.
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It was absolutely amazing, and now I have a huge hole going into the fall anime lineup for what I'm gonna watch because summer was hitting.
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Like we still we're still waiting on the last two episodes of Bleach.
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Uh, and then I thought I believe there's a couple more that's still to finish up.
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But the summer anime season was was a banger, and fall was looking like it's gonna be good, but I think summer is probably gonna have it overall.
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We didn't even talk about Tomb Raider King, we didn't even talk about Mao for real.
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We didn't talk about Bleach, but there's so many other things that I'm watching right now.
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But um, we're just gonna wrap it up with those those five, and on the other side of this break, spoilers ahead for lanterns episode seven, because that's what we're gonna be talking about on the other side of this break.
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So, spoilers for lanterns episode seven, other side of this break.
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All right, spoilers ahead for lanterns episode seven, entitled The Jordan Boys Legacy.
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Okay, I'm gonna give you a quick recap and then we're gonna go through the episode.
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So we start episode seven where we left episode six, John digging up Hal's body to grab the ring, grabs the ring.
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We get the hologram, and then we are with John and the halogram the whole episode.
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We do get a Hal Jordan 1975 flashback when he's a kid, uh, having to do with a baseball game.
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So we get that info on his his dad, things like that.
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We get a Sheriff Carey moment with the halogram.
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We open the box in the storage unit, and then we also go to another planet where we find Sinestro.
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And that's gonna be Lanterns episode seven, Synapsis.
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Okay.
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But let's talk about this episode.
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So we start in 1975 with the Hal Jordan flashback.
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And in this flashback, Hal Jordan's in the office with his coach, and the coach is telling him to give the baseball back.
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Hal doesn't want to give the baseball back because he almost completed a complete game, and the coach took him out with one, there was what out and no runners on, and he just needed to get the last two strikeouts for the complete game.
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Coach is going to take him out.
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Hal didn't want to hand over the ball, and so his team ended up forfeiting because he didn't want to hand over the ball.
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This transition into his dad coming in, talking to the coach, and Hal's dad ends up fighting the coach because he agreed he shouldn't have taken him out.
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And so that's kind of where we get the Hal Jordan entitlement, stubbornness, and reinforcement of those behaviors in that moment.
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So just like John or Hal not wanting to let go of the baseball, he also doesn't didn't want to let go of the ring.
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And we can kind of see those behaviors manifesting even when he was a little child.
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So after that, we get some imagery of John or Hal and his dad, you know, sitting, hanging out.
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Um, both of them have black eyes, so they were both fighting, eating popsicles.
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Ed Hal's father tells him kind of about the Jordan, the Jordan boys legacy, which we'll get back to in a little bit.
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But his dad gives him a necklace with a key on it that has uh is the key to his safe and tells him if anything happens, go to his safe.
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And how's father dies shortly after this encounter.
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That's the end of the flashback.
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But we will touch back on some of those themes later.
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In talking about the initial flashback scenario, we do get some more character depth to Hal Jordan because we learn about, you know, the relationship he had with his father.
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We also learned a little bit about Hal's father's actual backstory as opposed to the one that he's been telling people that his father died in a plane crash when it seems like that wasn't the case in this uh iteration, which I don't mind them changing.
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I don't mind them changing the origin of Hal's father because it doesn't ultimately change too much about how Jordan's character, but it does give you some more information about his character, which I thought is a good use of a flashback, especially this late into the season when we only have one more episode left.
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So getting that would be getting that character depth is really cool in this moment for sure, and seeing the way that Hal's father treated him in that moment shows us a lot about why Hal kept his father in such high regard.
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But we flash back to 2026, where the halogram is trying to come to terms with his own death, you know.
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So he's asking John questions about what's going on, like why is he dead, what like why is he digging up the grave, you know, and starts asking all these questions, and John kind of just gets him gets him away because he's not really ready for that conversation at that moment.
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Um I thought this was very interesting, it's just a small point, but John calls his brothers for$315,000,$315,000, and they argue about it uh because he's being extorted by Maggie, which I want to talk about that a little bit later, but I just thought that was a little ridiculous.
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So John takes the halogram to try to open the box in the storage, and the halogram starts being difficult because he doesn't necessarily trust John at this point, considering that he's just been murdered, and he's trying to, you know, kind of figure it out.
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So while John is trying to tell the hologram, you know, I just need your voice to open this box, like let's let's get it done.
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Hal is being stubborn in this moment and deciding not to use his voice and starts negotiating to open the box.
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And the things that he negotiates is he wants to go see see Sheriff Carey.
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And initially, he didn't know that Hal and Carrie had a relationship.
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He just wanted to speak to the authorities, and then it's found out that he wants to go see Sheriff Carey because of the relationship and because she's the sheriff.
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So, first attempt at going to go open this box doesn't work because the halogram wants to go talk to Sheriff Carey.
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On the way to going to meet with Sheriff Carey, the hologram appears by itself after John gets a phone call from his mom, and the phone call prompts him to start thinking about Hal, which is why the hologram appears, and they start having a conversation.
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John isn't really trying to hear it at this point, so he takes off the ring, puts it on, puts it down in the car, and the halogram gives John a compliment for being able to hold the constru the construct without wearing the ring.
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And this is important because while Hal was alive, Hal never complimented him.
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Hal never let him know like if he was doing a good job.
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He never really taught him anything as a trainee.
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It was it was all pretty much strife and pain when they were together.
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But the halogram being able to compliment John and showing showing John a different side or a different version of Hal Jordan was very important in this moment.
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And you could just tell by the look on John's face how like happy he was to receive that compliment from Hal or the Hologram at this point.
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So it was pretty awesome.
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So in during the course of all of this happening, the hologram is trying to figure out what happened, like what's been going down in the 10 years that he's been going going on.
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So he asks asks John, and John tells him, like, hey, you've been in jail, like all this all this stuff happened, and this is all taking place around the Green Lantern signal that's in the in the town.
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So the Halogram starts asking about like, hey, why is this signal here?
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Why are these names here?
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Who put this here?
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And then that's when John starts filling him in about the events of Rushville, how going to prison, Guy Gardner being the new Green Lantern, all of those kind of things.
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And that is just like John being able to retell these events to the Halogram is kind of important because we are getting to see a different version of Hal Jordan at this point.
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And you can tell that with every interaction, that John is starting to soften his stance to Hal Jordan in general, because he can see that the Hal Jordan that he met was a lot different of a person than the Hal Jordan 10 years prior, who this consciousness is based off of.
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And so the relationship that's building between the Halogram and John is very wholesome compared in comparison to the relationship that Hal and John had when Hal was still alive.
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Because Hal was very cynical, he was very uh stubborn, selfish, he was also uh very much conflicted in where he was at in his life, what John represented to his position in life, and that's why John got the asshole version of Hal Jordan, whereas this version is not necessarily that jaded at this point.
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Um, so we move on from John and Hal talking about the light to them going to try to find Sheriff Carey, and they find a note that share the sheriff and the whole town is basically at the hat ceremony for Noah and where he's gonna pick his college and everything like that.
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And this is the part where I want to talk about Maggie extorting John because they get to the hat ceremony at the high school, John parks, and Maggie walks right up to the car and she's like, Yo, you got my money.
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And he's like, I don't have your money, I'm gonna have it later, I'm working on it, whatever.
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She ends up taking his watch from him, which I think is crazy.
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Because all of this, all of this is happening with Maggie, because John didn't want to tell Sheriff Carey that he was the last one to see Hal Jordan and that he was the one to break his nose, which I think is stupid, because he could just say, hey, like, I know this is gonna sound weird, but I'm the one who broke Jordan's nose.
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He called me here, we got into an argument, I punched him, and I left.
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You know, when you called me X amount of hours after and told me he died, I had nothing to do with that.
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And because of John and Carrie's relationship, she should be a little bit more open to those kind of facts, especially since you know, she knew that John and Hal had a relationship prior to this whole situation going down.
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So I feel like he should have just been able to tell her, and this whole extortion plot is just kind of null and void.
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I think plus, I also think it's stupid that this girl is coming after John when John had nothing to do with anything that happened to her.
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The only thing that John had anything to do with her is he gave her the watch at the end of episode five and said, I'm sorry.
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So like why is this girl even going after John in the first place?
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I don't know.
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It seems like a weird plot point in this back three episodes of the season to be like constantly touched upon.
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I think it's ridiculous.
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And I think this little girl needs to go on and get.
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She needs to just get, you know, because like I said, John had nothing to do with the whole situation of why she got blown up.
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If she really knew what happened, she would know that it was Zoe or the manhunter who did the blowing up of everything.
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Or at the very least, that it was Anton who did everything, or if you don't want to go with either of those two, it was Hal.
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But John wasn't even there until the end.
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Like when John got there to give the girl the watch, the hospital the the motel was already blown up.
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That's when it blew up.
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So he had nothing to do.
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He wasn't even there, like, to do anything with that girl.
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:40.559
But anyway, that's just my little rant on that that whole situation, because I think it's so stupid.
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:46.960
The other thing about this episode, which stood out in like a very dumb way, is this hat ceremony for Noah.
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First of all, whatever, we saw the colleges on the table.
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It looked like it was Navy, Nebraska, Michigan, and then there might have been one other college.
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Okay, whatever.
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:04.880
But wanting to do the hat ceremony with your offensive line in general, very admirable.
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:20.239
But in this show, in rural Nebraska, you're expecting me to believe that those kids that went up on the stage for him, where it's his offensive line, that offensive line in Nebraska is getting run over.
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:27.440
The heaviest kid on that on that thing looked like he was about like 5'10, 2260.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, you're not protecting anything in rural Nebraska.
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His offensive line looked weak.
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Very sad.
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And so for him to be a four or five-star prospect with behind that offensive line is actually crazy.
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:49.280
They could have found some better kids for the offensive line, but I just wanted to mention that because I thought it was weird.
00:41:49.599 --> 00:42:06.480
And then Billy, Billy Macon coming up to John in the in the hat ceremony, like he was really gonna do something when you literally just got washed the last episode, you and your four homies, you really gonna walk up to him and try to like start something at this point?
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.639
Like, Billy, go sit down, bro.
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And that's essentially what Carrie said when she walked over to him, like, hey bro, go sit down and bring that fucking dip when you come over later.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And that was kind of that.
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I just thought that was really weird.
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But John and Carrie then go to a secluded room to talk about the halogram, and while John is explaining what the what's about to happen with the halogram, the halogram just shows up and is like, you're over-explaining.
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:57.840
And John and Carrie and Halogram all have a conversation where the hologram is trying to ascertain what's going on with Sheriff Carrie because the way he the way she touched him made the hologram think that Carrie killed him ultimately.
00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:05.519
But during this conversation, they ask the hologram asks how Hal felt about John.
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And I thought this was a great analogy, and she's she explains that Hal thought John thought of John as like the football team you watch every sud every Sunday, and this really resonated with me as a Raiders fan because it describes my team perfectly, where you go into it and you have so much hope, and then by the end of the day or the end of the game, all that hope has been taken from you because you're just so disappointed in what just happened.
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:40.559
It's not really like that for me this season because the Raiders are 3-0, but in general, that's how it goes.
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:47.679
So I thought that was very uh very intimate and and kind of thought that that was was very funny.
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:59.679
And Hal also asked Carrie if she knew about his father, which was important because it it shows that that Hal at one point.
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Was very open with her about things in his past that John didn't even know, obviously, to that point.
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But after this conversation, they leave, and the hologram is like, Yo, we need to go to the storage unit now.
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I don't trust Carrie.
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I think she I think she killed me.
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And you know, John's like, Yeah, aren't you being a little paranoid?
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And he's like, Bro, I I just got murdered, so like I think I can be paranoid.
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Which I thought was kind of funny.
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And this is gonna take us to the back half of the episode where they're no longer in Rushville, but they end up going to the other planet.
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So instead of waiting for Carrie to get done with the party and stuff that she has for Noah and go to the storage unit with them, they decide to go to the storage unit by themselves, and they open the storage unit to find a backpack with supplies in it.
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:59.280
So there's a poncho, some protein bars, and a canteen, and then a grocery bag that literally has an intergalactic portal in it.
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So a paper grocery bag that has a portal in it.
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Really crazy that what's in this box.
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:21.599
And so Hal opens the portal, the Hologram opens the portal, takes a look, and he says, Hey, the the planet that this links to looks to have air, breathable air, so we're good.
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:33.519
As they're about to take the portal, halogram's like, you know what, we should move it because we don't want Sheriff Carey coming to the storage later and we're on the other planet, and then she starts messing with the portal.
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:42.159
So they move it to a different location so that they can go to it, and they take it to the fallen water tower, which I thought was interesting.
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:52.880
So inside the fallen, the water towers fell over in episode, I want to say five, when Hal was fighting against Zoe.
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:59.920
She knocks down the water tower that has all the black gas in it that you know disabled the Green Lantern ring.
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.239
That water tower was obviously never rebuilt.
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:10.320
So that's where they went inside the actual structure of the water tower to set up this portal so that they could kind of be like a little bit more secluded.
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:19.519
And one thing I thought was interesting before they took the portal was John asks the halogram to ask if he's afraid.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:23.760
So the halogram was like, okay, asked him, Are you afraid?
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And John responds, Hell no.
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:26.800
Excuse me.
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:27.519
Fuck no.
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:32.960
So I thought that was really interesting that he had the halogram ask him that in that moment.
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I thought that was very interesting.
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We don't really get a reason why he wanted to ask him that, but he did.
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And then so they land on this desert planet, and it is absolutely deserted.
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Absolute desert.
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They're just the portal brings them to basically the middle of nowhere.
00:46:53.440 --> 00:47:18.000
And John says he feels like he's been there before, asks the hologram, like why they would why Hal would have been there, you know, and then as they start exploring, they look up in the sky and see that there's a city in the sky, and John projects the hologram up into the sky city so that he can, you know, kind of explore it.
00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:38.559
And while John's on the ground, he picks up a s a skull fragment, and then that's where he remembers why the planet feels so familiar to him, and we find out it's the same planet that Anton was from, and he starts recalling the memories that he got from Anton when he was captured.
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:46.239
And Anton showed him the devast the destruction and devastation of the planet due to the manhunters' interactions.
00:47:46.400 --> 00:48:05.840
So once the halogram comes back, they, you know, establish that there's some sort of fear gas that the manhunters deployed on this planet, and the people started jumping from the Sky City to the ground because they were so scared and hallucinating.
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:18.239
It was kind of a weird way to find out that that's what happened to the people of that planet, but it is it is kind of crazy.
00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:30.000
So they continue the journey on this planet to they're going to this kind of like body of water, kind of has like a lighthouse kind of situation, is where they're going.
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:45.199
And they end up getting on a boat to paddle out into where this lighthouse is, and that's where John has his own hallucinations, and it starts raining down apples in this boat.
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:52.239
He sees a vision of his father with the apple on his head, telling him to shoot, shoot, are you afraid?
00:48:52.480 --> 00:49:27.199
Then he gets a flash of himself as a child with the apple on his head, asking about if he's afraid, if he's afraid, and then suddenly he falls into the water, and then we get the hologram pulling him out, and we re we we see that John was about to shoot himself with the gut, and the hologram saved his life in that moment, and then that's when we get filled in about the fear gas still being in the atmosphere, in the water, in the air, all that kind of stuff, and that's what made John hallucinate.
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:49.119
It's also in this moment after the hologram saves him that the hologram tells tells John about the Jordan boy's legacy and about how his father left him a note in his safe talking about all the pain that he was feeling, basically the the pain of wanting to kill himself his whole life.
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And it was a similar note that his grandfather left his father, and it's a similar note that Hal's father left him.
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And so after this, we get this revelation from the Halogram talking about his father.
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:16.800
He alludes to the fact that he might have killed himself based on this revelation of what the Jordan family, like the Jordan boys' legacy is.
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:18.320
Um, I do want to dispute that.
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.239
We are gonna talk about that a little bit in Theory Corner, but we'll so we'll talk about it in a little bit.
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Last thing that happens, John loses the gun, whatever.
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He fell in the water, lost it in the water, but they land on shore, and then a mysterious figure takes the hologram hostage.
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:48.159
Now, I have some thoughts on this as well, but takes the hologram hostage, says, Hey, if you don't give me your boat, tell me where your portal is, I'm gonna kill him.
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.199
Obviously, it's a hologram, John doesn't care.
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He's like, Yo, go ahead, kill him, doesn't matter.
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.679
Hologram's like, whatever.
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:06.639
You know, hologram disappears, John decks this person in the face, and this person turns out to be Sinestro, and that's where we end this episode.
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John and Sinestro looking at each other with one more episode to go.
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We're gonna see what happens.
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Now, this episode was a little bit more straightforward for as compared to other episodes.
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:28.320
There's not as much like theory crafting, there's not as much uh depth or anything.
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:36.960
This the scenes were very straightforward, so there's not much uh reading into it as some of the other episodes.
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:42.480
Um, this episode seemed very quick when when I was watching it.
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:57.360
It seemed not as dense in terms of the information and like what we're getting from the characters outside of exposition, so facial expressions, you know, other other character interactions, body language, all that kind of stuff.
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.800
All that kind of stuff was lacking in this episode.
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:05.440
So that's why it was to me very quick and very to the point.
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:15.360
Everything was pretty much on the nose in terms of what we needed to know, how we found out it was just given to you through exposition.
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:26.880
The only thing that wasn't given through exposition was Hal's relationship to the baseball and how that informed his relationship to the ring later.
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Because one thing about the baseball that I didn't mention was that his father, you know, after they were talking and stuff, made him throw the baseball.
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And then after he threw the baseball at the end of the episode, after the funeral, Hal goes and picks up the baseball that he was holding to begin the episode.
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:51.920
And it just kind of shows you that like Hal couldn't let go of things.
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You know, if he thought something was his, he was gonna take it and keep it, cherish it, you know, and he did that same thing with the ring.
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:11.280
And so I just thought that this episode was more straightforward and doesn't necessarily require too much uh in-depth conversation like we would normally have, but this episode was good.
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:18.400
I would say that this episode is the weakest episode of the season so far, in my opinion.
00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:30.639
I thought it was last week, but on like I rewatched last week's episode three times, and after the third time, I realized that you know it was a good episode last week.
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:37.840
I do still think that the best episode of the season is episode three, uh, John's backstory episode.
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:45.920
I thought that that that episode was fantastic, but episode six was was pretty good after, like I said, I watched it three times.
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:49.679
This episode right here was wasn't bad.
00:53:49.840 --> 00:54:01.840
It was still a good episode, but it was like I said, it lacked the depth and um different narration techniques that have been deployed in other episodes to make them a little bit more interesting.
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:12.800
Whereas this one was a lot of surface level type interactions that didn't really uh contribute to the conspiracy or anything like that going forward.
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:27.519
Like we got a very brief shot of Noah, which is we're bleeding in a theory corner a little bit, but we got very, very brief uh Noah interaction in this episode.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:36.880
And so if we still think Noah's a manhunter, you would think that he's gonna get a little bit more screen time in this in this episode, considering there's only one more episode left.
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.360
But I don't know if that's gonna be the case.
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:42.159
Um, what do we have going on with Sinestro?
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:47.039
What is what is this Sinestro and John link up gonna produce?
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:48.880
That's kind of what I'm looking forward to.
00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:51.760
What do we got going on with with Sheriff Carey?
00:54:52.400 --> 00:55:00.800
And because the Halogram at one point thought that Sheriff Carey was the one who killed him, so that's something that we might need to explore if you're John.
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:07.599
Like I said, we've got the Noah might still be a manhunter situation, so we got that going for next week.
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:15.199
And my main concern going forward is what are we doing with Sinestro?
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:30.400
Because Sinestro is that guy, and from what Hal and John have shown so far, they are not as presently constructed, they are not ready for Sinestro.
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:31.440
In particular, John.
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:49.599
I don't think John mentally is ready for the games that Sinestro can play, and I'm excited to see where that relationship goes, not only at the end of this season, but like going forward in the DCU, because you can't you gotta think that Sinestro is gonna be a big part of the DCU going forward.
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:58.960
So I'm just excited for for that whole situation going forward with Sinestro and John, as opposed to being Sinestro and Hal.
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:01.920
I I want to see how that dynamic plays out.
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:04.000
I also want to get a Guardian's check-in.
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:11.599
So this with there being with there being one more episode left, the things I need from this last episode.
00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:14.159
I need the Guardian's check-in.
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:20.320
I need the relationship set up between John and Sinestro.
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:27.599
I need this Maggie situation dealt with, handled, get her out of here, get get get her out of this whole situation.
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:30.079
I don't care about that storyline at all.
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:34.079
Like either pay her the money or or or get her out of here, whatever.
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:38.480
And I need to need resolution on if Noah is a manhunter or not.
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:44.639
Those are the four things I'm gonna need from this season finale for it to be really good.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:55.280
Because if I don't get those things, I I think it's gonna be a I think it'll be kind of a failed season because they're not they're not landing the plane at this point.
00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:00.159
But I think they I think they can land the plane, and I think it's it's looking good.
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:02.400
So that's gonna be our episode.
00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:10.480
We just wrapped Theory Corner into into the summary as opposed to making it a different segment, so that's why we just did that.
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:13.360
Theory corner's real real short on this episode.
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.320
But um, I appreciate you guys.
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And I will see you guys next week for the season finale of lanterns.
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It's gonna probably be a lanterns only pod next week.
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We'll see.
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:28.559
But it's gonna be lanterns heavy for sure.
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But I will see you guys next week.
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Thank you for listening to Nerd Vibes Mamba out.
